http://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar13/financial-review/balance-sheets/index.html

Based on this discussion I gather that the optimal solution is to send midget women without legs.

We had the same problem before web for millenia. We did fine. 99% of low grade websites that would dissapear due to lack of ad sales should not have existed in the first place. Anything of value will find means to stay afloat.

Do not want. Neither television nor web becoming like television.

Find a way to monetise it, post it free, or charge for it. No awesome works of art will be lost if some "content" posters quit to do something useful instead.

Ubuntu with Gnome2 worked for my computer-challenged familty members for years.

- No annoying pop-ups that normally plague Windows.

- No trojans and self-installing crap to speak of

- Adblock? (or his stricter brother Noscript)

- I still grant admin access because there are some cases where a simple command needs to be run

- Remote SSH admin access can be routed through any unblocked port

I would hold very little faith in tales told by military brass at a boot camp. They are too far and remote from actual military decision makers, and impossibly far from military historians. Being a boot camp they are also not very accountable for the shit they make up. Try to pull your head from your arse from time to time.

It will take more effort to squelch consumption than screwing free market: Once upon a time a Russian Tzar passed a law of selling vodka exclusiely in large bottles to prevent people getting drunk and passing out on the street. This gave birth to a tradition of buying a bottle for a group of three and passing out collectively. This tradition is still alive today.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts

Platform lock-in is the strangest feature of some languages that purposely defeat all the progress we made since Assembler. This is why I will never C#

Teaching toddler Python was priceless, and this is just the beginning of the awesome process of passing nerdiness to the next gen.

...and I still find time to assemble my hardware, so there.

All of lower Manhattan (south of 34th St) could not flush toilet for two weeks after an explosion at local power station (due to hurricane Sandy). Where have you been with your "large diesel generators"?

Judging by the map it is mostly Iraq and some Syria so far. Thanks, Bush Jr!

Try using a Python editor? I don't want to start the next "emacs vs vi" round, but seriously...

Just like a C editor "corrects the formatting" for C, a Python editor "corrects the formatting" for Python.

A friend of mine, a physics major, is using Python to do his finance math (he secretly prefers Matlab) -- managed to write same exact code in Python, since chaining statements with ;'s is still allowed. All variable names are exactly one letter long, no spaces -- a wall of text margin to margin with no blank lines. His code will be dumpstered the moment he is not available to maintain it.